APUSH Chapter 3 Vocab

Proprietorship

a colony created through a grant of land form the English monarch to an individual or group, who then set up a form of government largely independent from royal control.

Quakers

Epithet for members of the Society of Friends. Their belief that God spoke directly to each individual through an “inner light“ and that neither minister nor the Bible was essential to discovering God’s Word put them in conflict with both the Church of England and Orthodox Puritans.

Navigation Acts

English laws passed, beginning in the 1650s and 1660s requiring that certain English colonial goods be shipped through English ports on English ships manned primarily by English sailors to benefit English merchants, shippers, and seamen,

Dominion of New England

a royal province created by King James II in 1686 that would have absorbed Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, New York =, and New Jersey into a single, vast colony and eliminated their assemblies and other charted rights. The Glorius Revolution canceled James’s plan in 1688, which removed

Glorious Revolution

A quick and nearly bloodless coup in 1688 in which James II of England was overthrown by William of Orange. Whig politicians forced the new King William and Queen Mary to accept the Declarations of Rights, creating a constitutional monarchy that enhanced the powers of the House of Commons at the expense of the crown.

Constitutional Monarchy

A monarchy limyed in its role by a constitution

Second Hundred Years’ War

An era of warfare began with the War of League of Augsburg in 1689 and lasted until the defeat of Napolean of Waterloo in 1815, At that time, England fought in seven major wars; the longest era of peace lasted only twenty-six years.

tribalization

The adaption of the stateless peoples to the demands imposed on them by neighboring states.

Covenant Chain

The alliance of the Iroquois was first with the colony of New York, then with the British Empire and its other colonies. The Covenant Chain became a model for relations between the British Empire and other Native American people.

South Atlantic System

A new agricultural and commercial order that produced sugar, tobacco, rice, and other tropical and subtropical products for an international market. Its plantation societies were ruled by European planter-merchants and worked by hundreds of thousands of enslaved Africans.

Middle Passage

The brutal sea voyage from Africa to the Americas took the lives of nearly 2 million enslaved Africans.

Stono Rebellion

Slave uprising in 1739 along the Stono River in South Carolina in which a group of slaves armed themselves, plundered sic plantations, and killed more than twenty colonists. Colonists quickly suppressed the rebellion.

gentility

A refined style of living and elaborate manners came to be highly prized among well-to-do English families after 1600 and strongly influenced leading colonies.

salutary neglect

A term used to describe British colonial policy during the reigns of George I (r. 1714-1727) and George II (r, 1727-1760). By relaxing their supervision of internal colonial affairs, royal bureaucrats inadvertently of internal assisted the rise of self-government in North America.

patronage

The power of elected officials to grant government jobs and favors to their supporters; also the jobs and favors to their supporters; also the jobs and favors themselves.

William Penn

memver of the Religous Society of Friends, founded Pennsylvania. Joined the Quackers and made his colony a refugee for them.

Edmund Andros

Sent from England to serve as governor of the dominion. Was unpopular by levying taxes, limiting town meetings, and revoking land titles.

William of Orange

Led the Glorious Revolution to overthrow King James II.

John Locke

“Father of Liberalism“, English philospher (individuals have inalienable natural rights to life, liberty and property.

Jacob Leisler

Dutchman led a rebellion against the Dominion of New England. Was indicated for treason, hanged, and decapitated

Robert Wapole

widely known as the first prime minister of Great Britain.

William Byrd II

Prominent colonial figure known for his roles as a planter, politician, and writer in Virginia during the 17th century.